TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
AU  - Amos, K. R.
AU  - Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
AU  - Bailey, A. J.
AU  - Cabrera Urban, S.
AU  - Cantero, J.
AU  - Cardillo, F.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Costa, M. J.
AU  - Didenko
AU  - Escobar, C.
AU  - Fiorini, L.
AU  - Fuster, J.
AU  - Garcia, C.
AU  - Garcia Navarro, J. E.
AU  - Gomez Delegido, A. J.
AU  - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
AU  - Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R.
AU  - Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R.
AU  - Higon-Rodriguez, E.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Martinez Agullo, P.
AU  - Miralles Lopez, M.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Monsonis Romero, L.
AU  - Moreno Llacer, M.
AU  - Munoz Perez, D.
AU  - Navarro-Gonzalez, J.
AU  - Poveda, J.
AU  - Prades Ibañez, A.
AU  - Rubio Jimenez, A.
AU  - Ruiz-Martinez, A.
AU  - Sabatini, P.
AU  - Salt, J.
AU  - Sanchez Sebastian, V.
AU  - Sayago Galvan, I.
AU  - Senthilkumar, V.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
AU  - Sanchez, J.
AU  - Torro Pastor, E.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Varriale, L.
AU  - Villaplana Perez, M.
AU  - Vos, M.
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Search for doubly charged Higgs boson production in multi-lepton final states using 139 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
T2  - Eur. Phys. J. C
JO  - European Physical Journal C
SP  - 605 - 32pp
VL  - 83
IS  - 7
PB  - Springer
AB  - A search for pair production of doubly charged Higgs bosons (H-+/-+/-), each decaying into a pair of prompt, isolated, and highly energetic leptons with the same electric charge, is presented. The search uses a proton-proton collision data sample at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1) recorded by the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This analysis focuses on same-charge leptonic decays, H-+/-+/- -> l(+/-)l'(+/-) where l, l' = e, mu, tau, in two-, three-, and four-lepton channels, but only considers final states which include electrons or muons. No evidence of a signal is observed. Corresponding upper limits on the production cross-section of a doubly charged Higgs boson are derived, as a function of its mass m(H-+/-+/-), at 95% confidence level. Assuming that the branching ratios to each of the possible leptonic final states are equal, B(H-+/-+/- -> e(+/-)e(+/-)) = B(H-+/-+/- -> e(+/-)mu(+/-)) = B(H-+/-+/- -> mu(+/-)mu(+/-)) = B(H-+/-+/- -> e(+/-)tau(+/-)) = B(H-+/-+/- -> mu(+/-)tau(+/-)) = B(H-+/-+/- -> tau(+/-)tau(+/-)) = 1/6, the observed (expected) lower limit on the mass of a doubly charged Higgs boson is 1080GeV(1065 GeV) within the left-right symmetric type-II seesaw model, which is the strongest limit to date produced by the ATLAS Collaboration. Additionally, this paper provides the first direct test of the Zee-Babu neutrino mass model at the LHC, yielding an observed (expected) lower limit of m(H-+/-+/-) = 900 GeV (880 GeV).
SN  - 1434-6044
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07505
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11578-9
DO  - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11578-9
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:001062376700002
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2023
ER  -